Having to open the control panel, start the Apache and MySQL components. As you will start these components, their Admin links will become clickable. Then, select MySQL “Admin” for moving ahead to phpMyAdmin or you can open it from here http://localhost/phpmyadmin.

WordPress Installation

Create MySQL Database

On phpMyAdmin interface, find the “Databases” tool on the top-left side and create the database. For example, we have created the database by the name WordPress.

Unzip the WordPress zip file.

After creating the database, we are set to start the installation of WordPress. Now, we are going to download WordPress.

Once the download is complete, extract the zip file to C:\xampp\htdocs\. If you’ve extracted the package correctly, you will see the “WordPress” folder inside hotdogs.

Select language

Next step is to browse this URL – http://localhost/wordress in your browser for initializing the actual installation of WordPress.

Select language on the screen and continue.

WordPress installation step 1

Fill database information

Fill out the name of the database which you have created in the above step. In our case, it is’ WordPress’. Fill “root” in the username field and leave the password field blank, and fill localhost the database host field.

In the last field, you may define a prefix to all the database tables and submit.

Fill in the website information

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In the next step, you are prompted to set the title of your site and fill up user information, like site title, username, password, and Email.

Fill up the required fields, and press “Install WordPress”.

That’s it. You have installed WordPress. Now, you are in business.

Log in to the dashboard

Now, you have installed WordPress locally. You can move on to the dashboard by clicking on the Log in button.

WordPress Administration

WordPress Admin Dashboard and Bar

The dashboard might be the first thing you see, once you logged in. You can start customizing your website from here only. Even it keeps you reporting about new updates,